Earley, Charity Adams, 1918-2002

LC control no.	n 88119899
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Earley, Charity Adams, 1918-2002 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Adams, Charity, 1918-2002
Associated country	United States
Birth date	1918-12-05
Death date	2002-01-13
Place of birth	Columbia (S.C.)
Place of death	Dayton (Ohio)
Affiliation	United States. Army. Women's Army Corps Wilberforce University Ohio State University Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State College Georgia State College (Atlanta, Ga.) Miller Academy of Fine Arts
Profession or occupation	Soldiers Educators Officer personnel
Found in	Her One woman's Army, c1989: CIP t.p. (Charity Adams Earley) addit. pub. info (lives Dayton, Ohio; Vice-chairman, Board of Trustees, Sinclair Community Coll.; b. 12/5/18) The courageous Six Triple Eight, 2022: ECIP galley (Major Charity Adams) New York times, Jan. 22, 2002: obituaries (Charity Adams Earley; commander of only all-black Women's Army Corps unit to serve overseas during World War II; d. Jan. 13, 2002 in Dayton, Ohio at age 83) African American National Biography, accessed January 16, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Earley, Charity Adams; Charity Edna Adams; army officer, soldier, women's army corps officer; born 05 December 1918 in Columbia, South Carolina, United States; graduated from Wilberforce University in Ohio in Math and Physics (1938); MA in vocational psychology at Ohio State University (1946); first African American woman in the Women's Army Corp (WAC) stationed in Europe in WWII (1942); one of thirty-nine black women enrolled in the first officer candidate class at the First WAAC Training Center at Fort Des Moines in Iowa; manager of music school at the Miller Academy of Fine Arts; dean of student personnel services at Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State College, and at Georgia State College; died 13 January 2002 Dayton, Ohio, United States)